Stormfly

November 11, 1995. Big drop, rain changed to sleet then snow. Also big winds when it moved through. Some areas clocked 70mph gusts. Derecho like!

Nice little drop but nothing spectacular like severe in the summer where we go from upper 90s to mid 60s in a few min!

Let Lamar get us into post season and bring Joe back for playoffs! Then MAYBE... And DVDs? MKV or bust!

52/50 Nice southerly breeze. Snow finally gone even in the shadows.

WWA canceled for Harford. Enjoy the rain, keep off the grass!

Kind of pulling for a few week long drought. Be nice to not have a mud season for a change. Want snow? Gotta move, all there is to it!

Staten Island Chuck has called the Sun Angle Police! Game over!

Definitely seeing an upswing in temp and wind. Now 49/48.

44/43, showers, patchy fog. Waiting for the worms to come!

Well if we get anything hopefully it's enough (glaze) to make the lane slippery enough so my border collie runs in place like a big treadmill!

Right, it's no fun dealing with 115kV over 13kV lines coming down together in farmland!

WWA cancel?

Fine by me. Don't care about flash freeze or whatever. I'd rather walk like a penguin to get the mail then spend a thousand bucks (or more!) in diesel keeping the power on not to mention the tremendous effort cleaning up the forest!

Chilly rain @ 39/38.

Definitely NOT looking forward to this in any shape or form. The southern pines have been freezing for weeks and are quite frail. Doesn't take hardly any ice/wind combo to bring limbs down.

Six more weeks of winter according to the rodent!

Give me 50 and rain over ice.

Yes for ice storm events. Isabel and Irene both were 700k customer out events (BGE territory). The ice storm of Jan 15, 1999 there were almost 500k out. Ice sucks. Drifting and donuts on ATVs is fun. Have to look out for snowmobilers, that's about it.

That would be a category five ice storm. The mid atlantic region would not have experienced this level of impact to the electrical system since 1999.

That better not happen! 3/4" accretion (for us) would be bad, very bad!

Phone with Jackery?

Time was 844-1212. Nerds called 202-762-1069 (Still active today!) This should bring back memories!

When I was younger (1970s) I used to be fascinated by turning on an AM radio, tuning to a blank station and listening to static (sferics). It was cool to see heat lightning in the distance and hearing the crash through the speaker at the same time. It lead me down a weird road of hobbies including weather, chemistry, and ham radio to name a few. I didn't have a lot of friends when younger as they thought I was "out there" staring at a speaker listening to static! At least it wasn't the TV letting lost spirits into the room! The memories of my folks listening to Orioles radio on WCBM and hearing the static from distant storms are still quite pronounced. Most (now) don't even own an AM radio. I have a boombox in the attic. But the king of AM is 160 meters which I still have HF transceivers to listen on if desired. The antenna farm was all but destroyed in a direct lightning hit in 2014. But if we have a SHTF situation I can get a longwire up pretty quick. I have a discone and a few 10 meter omnis too. Probably enough parts to put together another Moonraker 4 (11 meter - CB beam) too.

Snow devils are awesome. 30 or so years ago here a day like today would be endless snow devils. But now the trees are shadowing everything and we really need a decent blow (50 mph gusts) to get things charged up. Ditto in the fall with leaves. Leaves, of course, don't melt away so we only welcome leaf devils when the wind blows hardest from the west. Roads and drifting for the only time in my life here I remember a blizzard warning being issued under clear skies due to a frontal passage with a decent (foot+) snow pack. It was probably in the mid 20s and after the front passed and winds kicked up it was in the single digits with gusts to 50-55. Nothing but cornfield on both sides of 165 and the road drifted closed very quickly. Outside it felt like we were in a legit snowstorm yet in the lulls I looked up and saw the Milky Way. That was really cool. Back then we used the old wind chill scale and wind chills hit fifty below! That was 1982.

1.25" Flizzard here. Nice enough to look pretty. Not disruptive at all. May be the new normal!